Poverty Stricken Britain - Page 3

mikhail · 07-18-08, 03:09 PM

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Originally Posted by Scucca

So you haven't got a poverty comparison to offer?

What proportion of our population is elderly? Compare that to continental European countries.

Its all relavitive you like to hide behind misleading statistics when you now you would rather be born in britain.Besides which france germany and others are not gonna be able to keep up there high pentions forever so whats the solution?

Scucca · 07-18-08, 03:28 PM

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Originally Posted by mikhail

Its all relavitive you like to hide behind misleading statistics when you now you would rather be born in britain.

Poverty is relative or absolute or subjective. I'm happy for you to present anything in support of your comment.

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Besides which france germany and others are not gonna be able to keep up there high pentions forever so whats the solution?

The thread is about Britain. We do not have the same elderly proportion of the population. We do have high elderly poverty rates. Of course we also have high child poverty rates and high working poverty rates.

mikhail · 07-18-08, 03:51 PM

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Originally Posted by Scucca

Poverty is relative or absolute or subjective. I'm happy for you to present anything in support of your comment.

The thread is about Britain. We do not have the same elderly proportion of the population. We do have high elderly poverty rates. Of course we also have high child poverty rates and high working poverty rates.

Yea poverty with playstations.these people arent poor i was probably included in these statistics at one point in my life But ive worked my way out of it.

Vader · 07-18-08, 03:51 PM

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Originally Posted by Scucca

Poverty is relative or absolute or subjective. I'm happy for you to present anything in support of your comment.

The thread is about Britain. We do not have the same elderly proportion of the population. We do have high elderly poverty rates. Of course we also have high child poverty rates and high working poverty rates.

One way to fix the situation would be to eject all of the islamics that have more than one wife. This would bring the muslims in-line with the law of the land and it would make funds available to British natives who are living in abject poverty.

Scucca · 07-18-08, 04:54 PM

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Originally Posted by mikhail

Yea poverty with playstations.these people arent poor i was probably included in these statistics at one point in my life But ive worked my way out of it.

Common misconception. Breadline Europe, adopting an absolute poverty measure, found Britain has a substantial poverty problem (9% if my memory serve me right)

mikhail · 07-18-08, 08:42 PM

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Originally Posted by Scucca

Common misconception. Breadline Europe, adopting an absolute poverty measure, found Britain has a substantial poverty problem (9% if my memory serve me right)

there will always be poor people and thats just be

Scucca · 07-19-08, 02:59 AM

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Originally Posted by mikhail

there will always be poor people and thats just be

The pertinent question is "will Britain always have more poor?"

mikhail · 07-19-08, 02:12 PM

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Originally Posted by Scucca

The pertinent question is "will Britain always have more poor?"

I dont agree there is real deep poverty whos starving to death?

Scucca · 07-19-08, 02:19 PM

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Originally Posted by mikhail

I dont agree there is real deep poverty whos starving to death?

Poverty has never been confined to "are you starving to death?".

We have three methodologies. You may argue that relative poverty confuses poverty with income inequality. However, subjective poverty (normally adopting a "consensus definition" of absolute poverty) tends to produce similar poverty thresholds. Then we have absolute poverty. I've already referred to the findings from that methodology: Breadline Europe, using the definition spawned by the World Summit on Social Development, found absolute poverty to be rife in Britain